So have you looked IXE-13 and the race for uraniumthe new Club illico series, written by Gilles Desjardins, the excellent author who gave us a rereading of the Upper country?
It’s rare that a series gets positive comments from both younger audiences and baby boomers. The criticism is unanimous!
But one thing bothers me: why several critics have passed over in silence the author of the first IXE-13, Pierre Daignault, father of cultural columnist Daniel Daignault?
At a time when Chantal Cadieux (author of Providence And RAMs) wrote an open letter asking for recognition of the author’s profession, it seems to me that we must give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar.
Not a musical!
I was surprised to read in The duty: “This reinterpretation of the musical IXE-13made in 1971 by Jacques Godbout, has little to do with the original, which featured The Cynics in a cardboard setting.
Um, excuse me, sorry, but we forget to say that Godbout’s film was itself a satire of Pierre Daignault’s books.
However, when Daignault died in 2003, The duty wrote: “His adventures of agent IXE-13, the ace of Canadian spies, woven with emphasis, clichés and thrilling and improbable adventures, sold 28 million copies between 1947 and 1967. He will have produced more than 950 in small pocket formats, almost booklets, a real publishing fast food.
In UrbaniaI read: “Very loosely inspired by the Jacques Godbout film of the same name, IXE-13 and the race for uranium (pronounced X-13) tells the story of a war commando led by the courageous Jean Thibault (Marc-André Grondin).”
My father-in-law, Jacques Martineau, now deceased, was an inveterate lover of books in the 1950s and 1960s. IXE-13 by Pierre Daignault, of which he owned all the copies and whose incredible adventures he adored.
When he went to see Jacques Godbout’s film in 1971, he left the cinema furious to see that his beloved hero had been made fun of.
The songs written by Godbout with music by François Dompierre were at the heart of the film’s success. Especially The very vulgar song and his famous words “My host of tabarnak you are going to eat my hand in the face / You slapped me with it, broke both of your stilts / My slobbering calisse there is no one to give me back.” hold / You blew my nose my brat, you’re going to cry and say martyr / Host, host, host, host, ciborium”.
Let’s just say the father-in-law didn’t find it funny!
By a strange turn of events, those who will watch the series today IXE-13 version 2024, thinking of finding the humor of Godbout’s film, may be surprised that the episodes are so serious!
I dare to make a comparison: Godbout’s film was to the novels IXE-13 exactly like the movies Austin Powers are a caricature of the James Bond films and the original books by Ian Fleming.
Not cynical
The Club illico series is neither crazy like Godbout’s film nor full of clichés like Daignault’s books.
To understand the tone, you have to take it like a comic strip. A comic strip from home. But without vulgar songs.